According to those quotes a lot of people are manipulative because of inferiority complexes.
The ordinary relationships of life will never satisfy such children.
That suggests that he only talks about some children and not all children. Some children are manipulative for those reasons but that doens’t mean all of them are.
Even if that’s true, I don’t think it implies that all “All human interaction is manipulation”. It only implies that a lot of it is at it’s driven by an inferiority complex.
I think “all human interaction is manipulation” is false on its face. I was putting forward Adler as a candidate for being a modern root of this meme. His teachings are still quite influential.
I think “all human interaction is manipulation” is false on its face.
The fact that you consider a statement to be false on its face doesn’t mean that there nobody in support of it. Pointing me to a different meme is besides the point.
Please be a little bit more charitable. He pointed you to a quite relevant quote and gave examples. That this source doesn’t exactly cover what you want covered is not his fault. He can’t read your mind.
I think that clarity of distinguishing different ideas from each other is useful. I think that it’s bad to be to vague to be wrong. In this case I think that _rpd simply switched from one meme to a different meme. I don’t think it takes mind reading to see the difference between A: “all human interaction is manipulation” and B: “a lot of human interaction is manipulation because people are acting out of inferority” .
A get’s used to justify that being manipulative isn’t bad, because everybody is always manipualtive. B doesn’t lend itself to that conclusion and is thus a completely different meme.
In particular A get’s used that way in this article. Asking for favors that way might be manipulative but that doesn’t matter as all communication is manipulative.
According to those quotes a lot of people are manipulative because of inferiority complexes.
That suggests that he only talks about some children and not all children. Some children are manipulative for those reasons but that doens’t mean all of them are.
My understanding is that Alder thought we all start with an inferiority complex because we all start as small, weak children.
Even if that’s true, I don’t think it implies that all “All human interaction is manipulation”. It only implies that a lot of it is at it’s driven by an inferiority complex.
I think “all human interaction is manipulation” is false on its face. I was putting forward Adler as a candidate for being a modern root of this meme. His teachings are still quite influential.
The fact that you consider a statement to be false on its face doesn’t mean that there nobody in support of it. Pointing me to a different meme is besides the point.
Please be a little bit more charitable. He pointed you to a quite relevant quote and gave examples. That this source doesn’t exactly cover what you want covered is not his fault. He can’t read your mind.
I think that clarity of distinguishing different ideas from each other is useful. I think that it’s bad to be to vague to be wrong. In this case I think that _rpd simply switched from one meme to a different meme. I don’t think it takes mind reading to see the difference between A: “all human interaction is manipulation” and B: “a lot of human interaction is manipulation because people are acting out of inferority” .
A get’s used to justify that being manipulative isn’t bad, because everybody is always manipualtive. B doesn’t lend itself to that conclusion and is thus a completely different meme.
In particular A get’s used that way in this article. Asking for favors that way might be manipulative but that doesn’t matter as all communication is manipulative.